SCO Group: Mini-Me trying to be Darth Vader    Wednesday, August 15 2007 @ 06:18 PM EDT Contributed by: sde Sometime before March 2003 The SCO Group decided that making products that people might want to buy was passe and decided to get into the "business" of filing lawsuits instead. Their first target was IBM but they soon expanded their scope to take on the entire open source community and scores of businesses actually trying to do things that benefited society. It's been a long road since then but the end is now in site - the end of The SCO Group that is. On March 6, 2003 The SCO Group sued IBM claiming that IBM had done all sorts of bad things with SCO Group intellectual property rights (IPR) and asking for a billion dollars or so to right the alleged wrongs. The lawsuit all depended on the statement in paragraph 18 of the complaint: "SCO is the present owner of all software code and licensing rights to System V Technology." On August 10, Judge Dale A. Kimball ruled that SCO was in error when they wrote that paragraph. The judge ruled that SCO does not own the copyrights to Unix. He also ruled that Novell could force SCO to drop all actions against IBM that depended on such ownership and, to complete the picture, that SCO owes Novell a pile of money of yet to be determined size. These rulings more than take the wind out of SCO's sails, they are likely SCO's death notice -- and this could not happen to nicer people. Full article   [ Views: 1565 ]

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